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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18
The EAST.

WHILE anchored in the North river at
New York on the 10th the steamer Wells
City was struck by an ice-fow and sunk by
collision with the steamer Lone Star. Loss,
$15O,000
GOVERNOR BEAVER, of Pennsylvania, on
the 10th signed the resolution for the sub
mission of a prohibition amendment to the
people.
THE strike of the New York 'longshore
men was declared off on the 18th, and the
men were ordered to return to work.
AT Tyrone, Pa, four Hungarians were
killed on the 1lth storm leveling a tree
under which they had taken shelter
THE Lutheran Church at Greensburg,
Pa, and many dwellings were wrecked by
wind on the 18th.
THREE boys, all less than fourteen years
of age, were drowned at Garden City, N.
Y, on the 18th by breaking through the
ice on the lake
OVER four thousand striking miners in
the vicinity of Pittsburgh, Pa, returned to
work on the 14th.
OK the 18th Emil Paul, of New York,
completed his task of eating eighty-two
quails in forty-one days.
THE failure is announced of Benjamin
Calendar q Co., wholesale hardware deal
ers at Boston, for S117,0
On the 14th the striking freight-handlers
and 'longshoremen made application for
work to the companies in Jersey City, but
were informed that they were not wanted.
AT various docks in New York City they
also met with the same reception.
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DECLARED OFF,

District Assembly 40 Orders the Coal
Handlers to Work on the Strength of an
Agreement with Austin Corbn-RefusaI
of the Brewers and Engineers to Comply
with the Order to Quit Work
New YORK, Feb 12-District Assembly
~, K of L., has announced that Austin
Corbin having promised to furnish work at
Elizabethport within week at 2215 cents
per hour, the strike is declared off. The
balance of the strikers are ordered to re-
turn to work Monday. The circular max
ing the announcement says:
SHOULD there be any discrimination against
our people by any corporation or individual the
fight will be continued in our own way. It was
also resolved that all coal-handlers, except
those at Hoboken, Port johnson, Weehawken
and Perth Amboy, shall return to work The
reason why the work at those places will not be
resumed at once is to give Mr.. Corbin time to
fill his contracts and give our people an oppor-
unity to place themselves in a position to take
decided stand in case Mr. Corbin should be-
come second Jay Gould and forfeit his honor"
1t is believed that the strikers will gen.
orally accept the decision of the Executive
Board and return to work.
NEW YORK, Feb 12.-The brewers and
engineers ordered out by order of District
Assembly 40 in support of the great strike
refused to obey, and an official in authority
admitted that the strike was a failure.
Considerable dissatisfaction is felt with
the Executive Committee of 40 because Of
the manner in which the strike has been
conducted, and at the Maine line dock all
the strikers returned to work
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WEST AND SOUTH.

On the 10th John Dikehouse, living near
Hastings, Neb., found his wife and
daughter dead and his father unconscious
The latter was resuscitated. Traces of
morphine poisoning were found.
On the 18th cyclone swept over Louis
vile, O., unroofing the Catholic Church
and convent and many houses, and leveling
trees and fences. At Wooster buildings
We're also wrecked.
AT Battle Creek, Lansing, Vermontville,
Owosso, Lyons and other towns in Michi-
gan, high water was still doing great dam
age on the 18th.
EARLY on the morning of the 18th an
earthquake shock was felt at Warsaw and
Hamilton, Ill Buildings were shaken, the
ground trembled slightly and great alarm
was felt by the people for their safety.
HIGH wind on the 11th unroofed the
Third Presbyterian Church at Wheeling.
w. Va, and the Mound City Hotel at
Moundsville, w. Va, was partially de-
stroyed.
GREAT damage was reported at Fort
Wayne, Ind, and vicinity on the 18th from
high water. Many factories had shut down
and people were compelled to vacate their
houses.
IN Iowa and Wisconsin a blizzard ragged
on the 18th, delaying railway and other
traffic.
THREE trotters-Flora B. (record 2:241Sl,
Joe Hooker (2:l915), and three. year-old
FLY valued at $500-were burned to death
in barn at Detroit, Mich, on the 11th
The Michigan Democrats will hold
State convention at Lansing, March g.
EARLY on the morning of the 18th the
jan at Murfreesboro, Tenn, was burned,
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LATER.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 18th sent
to the Senate the name of Lieutenant
Greedy, of Arctic-exploring fame, to be
Chief Signal Officer, vice General Hazen,
deceased.
THE wholesale dry-goods and boot and
shoe house of Block, Oppenheimer & Co.,
of Galveston, Tex, failed on the 18th for
$750,O00
The Missouri House on the 18th adopted
the joint resolution for submitting pro-
hbition amendment to the people.
STARVATION still prevailed on the 18th to
terrible extent in Newfoundland, and the
populace was clamoring for aid, which the
Government could not furnish.
THREE small children of Edward Hoff-
ner, OF Detroit, were fatally burned on the
18th by the explosion of can of benzine
JOHN STEvER, aged seventy years, jumped
into the Niagara rapids on the 18th from
the suspension bridge, falling 100 feet. No
cause was known for the deed.
ADvICEs of the 18th say that snow-storms
of unprecedented severity were prevailing
throughout Spain. Many railways had
been blocked for three days. The weather
was intensely cold and had caused much
distress throughout the country.
filler (Rep.) was elected mayor of Phil
adelphia on the 18th by over $4,000 major
ity.
Boston CoRBETT, the man who gained a
reputation as the slayer of John Wilkes
Booth, and who was assistant door-zeeper
in the Kansas Legislature, became violent
ly insane at Topeka on the 18th, and would
be sent to an asylum.
GOVERNOR MARTIN, of Kansas, on the
18th signed the bill which passed the Leg
islature conferr1ng municipal suffrage
upon women.
HEAVY rain-storms at Los Angeles, Cal,
had on the 18th flooded out many families
and caused heavy damage
AT San Francisco on the 18th hawser
snapped on board the bark Memnon, kill
ing three men
IT was announced on the 18th that the
total number of deaths caused by the re-
cent railway accident at Woodstock, Vt,
was thirty-four
ADvICEs of the 18th from the Friendly
Islands say six natives had been sentenced
to death for assaulting Missionary Baker.
A BOILER exploded on the 18th in q saw
mill near Cabool, Mo-, killing Thomas
Smallwood, aged seventy years, and fatal
ly injurlng his son and two other men.
The fund raised by subscription for Mrs.
John A. Logan amounted to $4,000 on the
18th.
In the United States Senate on the 18th
he amendments made by the House to the
Trade Dollar bill were non-concurred in
The bill to increase the naval establishment
was further considered, and the bill divid-
ing Missouri into two judicial districts was
passed. In the House the conference re-
port on the Anti-Mormon bill was submit
ted, as were also reports to encourage the
holding OF an industrial exhibition by the
colored race in 1888, and to increase the
naval establishment
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE death of Mrs Henry Wood, the En-
glish novelist, occurred in London on the
10TH She was born in Worcestershire in
1920.
DR.. HoLUR, the African explorer, his
wife, and the entire party accompanying
him were recently massacred by natives
near Cape Town, Africa.
Four HUNDRED houses at Rangoon, India,
were destroyed by fire few days ago.
On the 18th the heaviest snow-storm of
the season prevailed at Quebec, Can, and
all trans were blockaded.
THE House of Commons on the 18th, bv
a vote of 352 to 246, rejected Parnell's
amendment to the address in reply to the
Queens speech.
A FIRE few days ago destroyed the
Hotel Continental, occupying nearly a
block in the central part of Berlin, and
erected at a cost of 81, 10000
AT Eszek, Austria, cholera was reported
on the 18th, the deaths averaging eight
daily.
A GENERAL European war was regarded
as imminent on the 18th. Offensive and
defensive preparations were being made.
and it was said that Bismarck was anxious
to begin hotilities.
DISPATCHES from the Soudan on the 18th
predict prolonged war between the
Italians and Abyssinians.
A DISPATCH of the 18th from st. Petersburg
says that China was massing troops in
Kashgar and Kuldja and that thirty thou
sand men were already assembled in those
districts.
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and three eolefed fnen = Moses Manly.
Jack Twin and Bilse Lyon-perished in
the flames
THE 18th was the seventy eighth aririi-
Yersary of the birth Of Abraham Lincoln.
o. the 1ath Newton Watts was arrested
at Morris, H., for completely in the Rock
Island train-robbery and the murder of
Messenger Nichols March u last He had
charge of the baggage-car in which the
safe was carried.
OK the 18th Bishop Curtis, Of Whining
ton, DEL, issued pronunciamento to all
the Catholic churches il his diocese for
bidding balls, picnics, fairs, etc., to be
given in aid of religious purposes
8. 81 HoLh1NGswoRTH, the defaulting
treasurer OF Knox County, Ind, was SEN
fenced to three years. Imprisonment on
the 18th. When elected to the position he
was farmer, worth $50, 100. He spent
that and $50, 600 of public money in specu-
laGion and carousing.
An incendiary fire destroyed thirty build
ings on the 18th at Anaconda, NJ T., valued
at SIS, 900.
THE death of Bishop William NJ Green,
ID. D., the Oldest Episcopal Bishop in the
country, occurred at Sewanee Tenn, on
the 18th, at the age of eighty-nine years
AN ices gorge at Lyons, Mich, caused a
flood on the 12th which swept away twenty
buildings and cut off postal and telegraphic
communication. Grand river was flowing
through the principal streets.
In Indian Territory managers of large
ranches reported on the 18th that the win
ter had been the mildest for five years, and
that the loss of stock would only be from
two to four per cent
ADvICEs from the Yellowstone ranges
on the 18th we're to the effect that two hun
dred thousand head of cattle were suffer-
ing terribly for grass and water, and car
casses could be counted by the hundreds
along the river.
A FARMER named Watkins Dupuy, living
near Farmersville, W. Va, killed his wife
on the 18th and then committed suicide.
He was deranged.
WHILE temporarily insane on the 18th
Jacob jacobson, aged fifty years, of
Omaha, Neb., killed his baby boy and then
hanged himself. His wife had become in
sane by the shock.
FROM Lyons to Muir, Mich, the whole
country presented an arctic panorama of
desolation on the 14th. The ice-gorge
showed no sign of breaking, extending as
solid glacier five miles long and fifteen
or twenty feet thick. The loss of property
would doubtless reach $4,000.
On the 18th Alexander Macarthur, who
has made special study of arctic explora-
ton, left Winnipeg, Man, with compan-
ion to search for the North pole.
A PLOT by Anarchists to murder two
Omaha editors because they ridiculed a
speech made by Mrs. Parsons was discov-
cred on the 14th
The death of John Carroll, an Irish la
borer, of Wilmington, Del, occurred on the
18th, within four months of his l11th birth
day.
THIRTEEN counterfeiters were arrested
on the 14th at Stone Fort I'LL
MISS LOUISA N. DUNGEY, of St. Louis,
aged seventeen years, died on the 14th
from the effects of a dose of arsenic which
she administered with her own hand. be.
cause her parents opposed her marriage to
the man of her choice.
On the 14th the first train in six DAYS ar
rived at Pierre, D. 7. The delay was
caused by heavy snoW-storms
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18
THE TRADE DOLLAR.
The House Passes the Measure for Their
Retirement and Recoinage-Synopsis of



Retirement and Recoinage-Synopsis of
the Bill.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-Immediately
after the journal was read in the House
Saturday Mr.. Scott (Pa) demanded the
regular order, which was the Senate bill
for the retirement and recoinage of the
trade dollar. The demand was granted by
the House. A long debate followed, but
after several amendments had been dis
posed of the bill was passed-yeas, ia;
nays, 36.
las passed, the bill provides in its first
section that for period of six months after
the passage OF this act the trade dollars, if not
defaced, mutilated or stamped, shall be re-
ceived at their face value in payment of all
dues to the United States, and shall not again
be paid out, or in any other manner issued.
Section provides that during the above
period the holder of trade dollars not mu-
tilated, defaced or stamped, may receive in
exchange, on presentation of the same at the
treasury, or any sub-treasury, like amount
and value, dollar for dollar, in standard silver
dollars, or in subsidiary silver coins at the op-
ton of the holder Section directs that the
trade dollars received by the Government
in payment of dues, or in exchange, shall
not be paid out, but shall be recoined
into standard silver dollars or subsidiary
coin at the discretion of the Secretary
of the Treasury; provided that the recoinage
of trade dollars recoined under this act shall
not be considered as part of the silver bullion
required to be purchased and coined into stand
ard dollars, as required by the act of February
is, 1873. Section repeats all laws authorizing
the coinage and issuance of trade dollars.
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The War CIoud.

LONDON, Feb. IA general European
war is now regarded as imminent Often
sive and defensive preparations are being
made, and it is said that Bismarck is
anxious to begin hostilities. Germany's al
legged intention is to swoop down on France
through Belgium. German officers are in
momentary expectation of being ordered
out for parade or campaign, and have no
doubt of the reality of the intention to
commence war. The whole tone of Bel
gian talk is said to be in favor of Germany.
No Prohibition on Percheron Expectation,
PARIS, Feb. 14-Minister of Agriculture
Develle denied, in an interview with
Colonel Thompson, the Percheron Horse
Commissioner from the States of Illinois.
Ohio, ETC., that there was any foundation
for the rumor that the French Govern
ment meant to prohibit the expectation of
horses.
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IDENTIFIED.

Joseph P1ew Declared by Mrs. Durham
to Be the Murderer of Her Husband and
Child.
WABASH, Ind, Feb 1T mystery
surrounding the murder of Henry Durham
and his family near Piercetown is being
cleared away. Mrs. Durham, who is NOR
tally wounded, partially regained conscious
ness and talked in rambling way about
the horrid affair. She said the fam
lily were in the barn when attacked by a
man whose name she could not recall He
killed her husband and cut the baby's
throat before her eyes, and then attacked
her. Several names were mentioned, and
when that of Joseph Plew was named she
said at once that he was the murderer.
Plew is in jail in Warsaw charged with the
crime.
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THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches
XLlxth CONGRESS. /,
Second Session.

Second Session.
THURSDAY, Feb 10. In tha Senate a
Dill was reported for the division of the
State OF Illinois into judicial districts, and
nlils were passed prohibiting off-shore
mackerel fishing during the spawning
season, and appropriating $150,000 for the
erection of branch soldiers home west of
tie Rocky Mountains. In the House sew
eral Senate bills for the erection Of public
buildings were passed and the Diplomatic
Appropriation bill was further considered.
Wednesday, the 10th inst, was set aside
for the delivery Of eulogies upon the late
Senator Logan.
FRIDAY, Feb. IA bill was introduced
IN the Senate to provide f1ortars
ana heavy guns fot the forts,
coast defenses and Vessels of the United
states. Bills were passed to give the
otate OF California five per cent. of the
he6 proceeds Of land sales within her lin
us, AMI to grant railroad rights of way
through several Indian reservations. The
Post Office Appropriation bill was consid-
cred. In the House the time was occupied
IN discussing a patent improvement to
evaporate liquids. At the evening session
thirty-five pension bills were passed.
SATURDAY, Feb 12.-Mr. Cullom present
ed petition in the Senate from citizens
OF Illinois asking such an amendment
OF the law that the widow and minor chill
dren OF a pensioner shall receive his al
lowance after his death. Mr. Williams in
troduced bill to authorize the redemp-
ton OF legal-tendar notes in coin at San
Francisco. The Post-office Appropriation
bill was passed. Mr.. Henderson intro
duced a bill providing for 30, 800 copies of
the Logan eulogies delivered in the SEN
ate. In the House the Senate bill for the
retirement of the trade dollar was passed,
with an amendment providing that it's re-
coinage shall not count in the bullion re.
quired to be coined under the Bland law.
MONDAY Feb. IA. e. A memorial was
presented in the Senate from the Illinois
House of Representatives in favor of pen
sloning soldiers over sixty years of age. A
petition was presented from colored men
in Mississippi asking an appropriation of
500 apiece to transport them to Liberia
A bill was introduced for the issue of sub
sidiary silver coin. The bill to increase the
naval establishment was discussed In the
House bills were introduced: To amend
the Chinese Immigration act; to prohibit
members of Congress from acting as at
torneys or employees in any case in which
the Government is interested; to appoint a
committee to revise the pension laws; pro-
posing constitutional amendment for the
election of Senators by the people of the
several States; for full reciprocity be-
tween the United States and Canada.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18
THE PORK PRODUCT.
A Failing Off in HOg-Packing at Chicago
The Business Badly Demoralized.


The Business Badly Demoralized.
CHICAGO, Feb. 12.-The hog-packing of
the entire West for the current winter, up
to date, is estimated to be about two hun
dred and seventy thousand hogs less than
for the same time year ago, the falling
off being fully four per cent At Chicago
the decrease is more than twice as many in
number, and amounts to very much larger
percentage than that of the whole West.
Speaking roughly, the other points have
increased their work by about half as
much as Chicago has fallen behind in the
race The now admitted shortage in the
hog crop has told with peculiar force upon
this city, and that in consequence of the
absurd labor movement of last November,
by which the workers hoped to force the
packers here to pay more for the service
than was asked of those who sell from
other points in competition with them. The
result might have been even more disas-
trous to the trade at the head of Lake Mich
igan. As it is, the business has become
badly demoralized, and the prospects for
work the coming summer are by no means
encouraging.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18

ON receiving from his friends recent
" 4 purse of $4,000 as a testimonial
that during his twenty years of service
with the Cunard line he never lost a
life Entrusted to his care, or seriously
damaged q single vessel under his COM
Hnand, Captain William McNlickan said
that Ibis thanks We're unspeakably due
to Almighty God, who has made his
teeble efforts so successfully -
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18

WOMEN are sometimes obstinate
creatures. One of them who turned
UP in Washington the other day and
demanded n pension of $780, 900
wouldn't crafty the Commissioners
curiosity by explaining how or why
Rhe YVES entitled to it. Indeed, she
told the gentleman to shut his head,
and gave him only twenty minutes in
which to produce the cash.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18
A SENSIBLE MOVE.
Railway Officials Making Efforts to Heat
Coaches Without Danger.

Coaches Without Danger.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Feb. IA train con-
tanning five coaches, to run between here
and Chicago, on the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul railway, has been fitted up with
an anti-fire car-heating apparatus, the
same which is in use on some Eastern lines
for heating cars by steam from the loco
motive. 1t is not known when the train
will begin running, but it is believed it will
be put on some time this week.
ST PAUL, Mimi, Feb. 14.-Vice-President
Cakes and Superintendent of Water Power
Cushing, of the Northern Pacific railroad,
are having built at the company's shops an
experimental iron car intended to supply
heat, light and pure water to passenger
trains. The car is to Immediately follow
the engine. Details of methods of heating,
ETC.. are not announced, but the inventor
intends to continue experimenting until
practical success is attained.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18

THE irony of fate is illustrated in the
case Of the Dedham (Mass.) physician,
who when wealthy, gave away most
,of his money in charity, and now,
broken down by blindness and power
ty, is an applicant for admission to the
Town poor-house. ISurely, says the
Boston Transcript, such case should
be treated by some other means.
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HE Chicago Nes0s says the present
year has opened most inauspiciously for
the cause of labor us shown in the state
ment of strikes begun during January.
Within that limited period there oc-
cnrred siXty-six strikes in various parts
ot the country, a very large majority of
them being in Eastern cities. BY these
strikes $4,000 work-people Were left
without employment. One-third of
the strikes were successful or were
settled by compromise, and nearly
one-siXth of them failed, The Others
were still unsettled at the end of the
month.
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Charged With a Double Murder,

WABASH, Ind, Feb. f2-T The mystery
surrounding the murder of Henry Durham
and his family near Piercetown is being
cleared away. Mrs. Durham, who is NOR
tally wounded, partially regained conscious
ness and talked in rambling way about
the horrid affair. She said the FAM
lily were in the barn when attacked by a
man whose name she could not recall. He
killed her husband and cut the baby's
throat before her eyes, and then attacked
her. Several names were mentioned, and
when that of Joseph Plew was named she
said at once that he was the murderer.
Plew is in Jail in Warsaw charged with the
crime
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A STATEMENT made few days ago
shows that the total resources OF the
savings banks of New York City are
$500, 475, 1850; their liabilities are
$27O, $685. $50, due to $50, 49S depositors;
other liabilities $1,015, leaving Il net
excess of assets over all liabilities of
$40, 905,31S. The increase in the de-
posts of the twenty-fom banks during
1885 was S11,520,S1O, during 1886 the
increase was $14,623,2 1S. Present in
dications are that the total increase of
deposits in the one hundred and TWEEN
ty-six banks of the State will approx
innate $50, 100000 for the year.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18

G. H. Colt, of Hartford, Conn, who
alas accepted Captain Bush's challenge
@o sail schooner race from Sandy
Hook to Queenstown, has owned the
Dauntless for some years and has sailed
her in nearly every known quarter of
the globe. lie is the only child of Mrs.
Samuel Colt, widow of Colonel Colt of
revolver fame.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18

The Secretary of the Interior reports
70 the Senate that forty-four of the
older Apache children at Fort Marion,
Fla, have been transferred TO the In
dian school at Carlisle, Pa, and that
sixty of the younger ones are to be ed
mcated at st. Augustine by the Sisters
II Charity at $3.50 each per quarter.